Haryana Assembly Elections 2024: BJP’s single-digit struggles to 48 seats hat-trick win

Chandigarh: With just six legislators in 2000, then two in 2005 and 4 in 2009, the BJP has now surged to forty eight seats in Haryana, securing a hat-trick of victories contained in the state. This performance surpasses even its 2014 breakthrough, when the celebration first came to power on its own. Bucking anti-incumbency, the ruling celebration contained in the state has retained power and halted the Congress’ comeback attempt contained in the assembly elections, the outcomes of which were announced Tuesday. While the BJP ended up with its best-ever haul of forty eight seats contained in the state, a further than its 2014 tally, the Congress won 37 seats and the INLD two. Three Self sufficient candidates also tasted victory.

The BJP had contested 89 of the Ninety seats in Haryana this time. It did now not contest the Sirsa seat, from where its ally Gopal Kanda used to be the sitting MLA. Kanda, nevertheless, lost his seat.

Earlier than 2014, the BJP used to be restricted from playing 2d fiddle, mainly to parties like the INLD after which Bansi Lal-led Haryana Vikas Party (now merged with Congress). It contested the polls on all Ninety seats on its own for the first time in 2014. In 2019, the BJP won forty seats and formed the federal government in Haryana with the strengthen of the JJP and some Independents. In 2014, the celebration used to be buoyed by its performance contained in the Lok Sabha polls, wherein it had won seven of the eight seats it contested.

Ahead of the forty seven seats it won in 2014 and forty eight this year, the BJP’s best-ever electoral performance in Haryana, carved out as a separate state in 1966, used to be sixteen seats out of 20 it had contested in 1987. The Devi Lal-led INLD had swept to power that year. On the opposite hand, in 1991, the BJP again went down, managing to win just two seats. In 1996, it won eleven.

Unlike now and 2019, contained in the 2014 assembly polls, the BJP did now not declare anyone as its chief ministerial candidate and the polls were fought under collective leadership. Earlier than the 2014 assembly polls, the then BJP ally Haryana Janhit Congress, which used to be then led by Kuldeep Bishnoi, had separated. To bolster its poll prospects, the BJP had covered all Ninety assembly segments by the use of four Vijay Sankalp Yatras. Kuldeep Bishnoi switched over from the Congress to the BJP in 2022.

Haryana went to polls on October 5 in a single phase. Thanking voters for BJP’s win, Haryana Chief Minister Saini Tuesday said people have “put a stamp” on the federal government’s policies under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.